Note: most of the cat books on my shelf belonged to purple58 before they passed through my hands.

I try to honor my BC commitments on a timely basis (except that I'm often behind for the birthday group - sorry!) but if you're expecting something from me and haven't gotten it yet, it never hurts to send me a friendly reminder PM!

(Please keep in mind that media mail to the US mainland can take 3 weeks or more; I generally try to include the USPS tracking information in the book's journal entry.)

Thanks to all the wonderful Bookcrossers out there!

You're the best. Really.

NOTE: people on my "friends" list are mostly BookCrossers that I've actually met in person - it helps me keep track. If your name isn't on there, it doesn't mean I don't like you! ;)

My profile is always a work in progress, but I try to keep my wishlist here up to date. Some of the books are actually
Croyd's wishes: particularly the Jean Lorrah, Joel Rosenberg and Sten books.

If you've successfully mailed me something in the past, that address is still good. :)

2015 update:
It may be obvious, but I should point out that I stopped updating this section some time ago. I still appreciate the many(!) kindnesses I've received from BookCrossers, but I just haven't been able to keep up with you!

BookCrossers are SO generous...

If you've send me a RABCK, of a book or anything else, please be assured that
I do appreciate it, very much.

Here are some of the many books I've received as RABCKs and wishlist tags:

About my wishlist: if you'd like to send me a book from my wishlist I won't object(!), but that's not the main reason I keep a list. I try to keep it current so I can use it to help me keep track of what I'm interested in and/or looking
for. Thanks to cliff1976 for his pioneering work on the
original wishlist site, which I still like for its flexibility.

Things I'm looking for that aren't on my wishlist (I'm open for trades, etc.):

If you'd like to trade, send me a PM. If it's something on my TBR shelf, ask anyway - I'll try to move it up on the list! My mom's a stamp collector, so I'm usually willing to trade overseas if you'll put interesting stamps on the package. We're always glad
to receive any stamps, but Mom's favorites are music stamps and my own (very small) collection is of origami-related stamps.

Oh, and if you receive a book from me and I haven't given any specific instructions for what to do with it next (ring, ray, whatever), please feel free to release it any way you wish - I'm happy to see my books travel, and I'm thrilled when they check back
in!

Listening to a podcast of
"Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" (7/15/06) and the woman says the phone company wanted to charge $5 a month for a hyphenated name (that would be the charge for a double listing) so she & her husband just combined their surnames instead. She figures the phone
book people just didn't know what a hyphen was!

I wrote the following bits down, but I forgot to write down which book they came from...suggestions welcome! (I was reading a bunch of Melanie Rawn at the time but I'm not sure if they're from her books or not.)

Tentative identification: By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille

"Survival is often a mixture of stupidity, hypocrisy, and compromise."

"I'll rant and rave about The Law, and you rant and rave about military expediency. People will take sides. Internal strife is not always bad. It works to make people forget what a hopeless position they're in when they're arguing about trifles. So you and
I will argue over trifles. Privately, we'll compromise."

With the help of
spacedog's Newbery bookrings,
I have 83 (of 96)
Newbery Medal Winners on my bookshelf..so far!
(I've also read 83, but the list is not quite the same.)
(°°° means I haven't read it yet.)

Elementary and middle school students in Hawaii vote annually for their favorite fiction book, and the winner is given the
Nēnē Award. named after the state bird. Since the contest went statewide in 1964, there have been 52 winners; so far I have 35 of them on my bookshelf.
(°°° means I haven't read it yet.)

Just gotta squeeze in a little note about some really terrific book-related NON-wrecks from
Cake Wrecks because they're, well, amazing. (Yes, it's called Cake
Wrecks, but on Sundays they feature wonderful
Sunday Sweets instead of the hilarious/disastrous wrecks they highlight during the rest of the week.

I'm not actually *asking* for these things, but as requested, for the birthday group:

Things I'm always happy to receive: new or used postage stamps (for Mom's collection), BC supplies, colored staples (standard size), origami-related things, the occasional bar of well-wrapped dark chocolate (melting may be an issue)... Oh, and while not dark
chocolate, the seasonal Ritter Sport Kaffee + Nuss chocolate that linguistkris sent me was very delicious - my favorite candy from the birthday group so far!

I listen to audiobooks in pretty much any format - unabridged preferred.

I like bright colors, sparkly things, silly toys...and will choose purple, red, or blue over pink almost every time.

There are some non-book items in my wishlist - the "author" is "(for wishlist tag)".